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. By NOEL WRIGHT

‘The North Shore, together with the rest of B.C.

“and Canada: west. of Ontario, turned its back on
‘the Liberals. at Tuesday's federal election and
chose Progressive Conservatives to represent both °
-fts ridings‘ in ‘the ‘new House of Commons.
“Meanwhile much of the remainder of Canada,
‘with the notable exception of Quebec, also swung
‘behind Joe Clark -- although denying him an

. - Overal majority. oO

‘In Capilano riding in-
‘eumbent Tory MP Ron
Huntington, scored an easy

‘victory over — his. Liberal
: "opponent, Dave Finlay, with

election, both in B.C. and
overall in the west, was the
strong showing of the NDP,
particularly in the Prairie

NDP candidate Michiel Provinces where the party

. Karton trailing. won a total of nine seats in

TEE, Manitoba and Saskat-
'..°s In North’. Vancouver-  chewan.

Burnaby Conservative
. . Chuck Cook won out over’
- Gordon Gibson, former B.C.
Liberal leader and MLA,

The NDP also picked up
eight of B.C,’s 28 seats as it
gained the second largest

. wiio irony to Wt tora Commons representation in
_ federal seat. its history.

The big surprise of the.

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CHUCK cook (Cons.) . ae .- eee eee 16,6454
- Gordon Gibson (Lib. ) cece eee een ee 14, 386: °
Russell Hicks (NDP) wee eee ecw 12 084 |
Eric Waugh (Communist) www ee eens eee 94

(Final results)

Others

The Conservatives more
than ‘doubled their numbers

in Ontario,. taking 58 seats

compared to 25 in 1974; and

also swept all.21 seats ‘in.

Alberta. '

Once again, however,
there was a major disap-
pointment for the Tories in
Quebec, where they won
only two of the province's 75
seats, Six Quebec seats went
to the rejuvenated Social
Credit Party.

In Prince Albert, Sask.,
former prime minister and
former Conservative leader
John Diecfenbaker was re-
elected for the 12th time,
marking 39 ‘years in
Parliament. Diefenbaker,
now over 80, has said that
this will be his final term.

Ontario proved a disaster
for the Liberals, not only in

Industry Minister

their massive loss of seats,
but also’in the number of
cabinet ministers who went
down to defeat there --
including Hugh Faulkner,
Bud Cullen, Tony Abbott
and Norm Cafik.

Other defeated Liberal
cabinet members included
Transport Minister Otto
Lang in Saskatoon = and
Jack
Horner, the fornier Alberta
Conservative who defected
to the Liberals two years
ago.

Veteran Affairs Minister
Dan Macdonald was also
dumped in Prince Edward
Island.

With seven seats (at press
time) short of an absolute
majority of 142 in the ex-
panded House of Commons
of 282 seats, Clark will now

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overall. majority.

have the tricky | task- of
forming a minority govern-
ment dependent for survival
on the NDP. With only one
more seat (i.¢c., a total of
136) it would have been
eoretically possible for
him to dispense with even
NDP support, provided he
could have come to a
working agreement with the
six Quebec Social Credit
members.

.

The final cliffhanger in
B.C, was the fight in Van-
couver Centre between the
Liberal candidate Art
Phillips,. former mayor of
Vancouver, and  Con-
servative Pat Carney. At
press time the result -- which
offered the Liberals their
only chance of retaining a
B.C. seat -- was still un-
decided,

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PROGRESSIVE CON SERVATIV
JOE CLARK -leads: his.
victory: -- although’ tantalizingly. short’-of
In! order: to ‘survive: as. a
_ government he er need the support <
‘Credit and/ or the NDP.

LEADER :
ignificant .

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